No other Republican gubernatorial candidate in Connecticut is more pro-Trump than Visconti.

So when Visconti’s son, who goes by the same name, recently won an Emmy for film production work on “Saturday Night Live,” it was a punchline. From Alec Baldwin’s combover to Melissa McCarthy’s portrayal of Sean Spicer, no other show enjoys trolling the president as much as SNL does.

And when the crew found out that one of their own is related to a Trump diehard who got 11,456 votes in the 2014 governor’s race as a petition candidate, well it provided additional comic relief.

Visconti had raised $2,995 for his 2018 gubernatorial as of Jan. 1, an amount that the state’s top Republican J.R. Romano has said wasn’t enough to merit an invitation to debate the other GOP candidates in the race.

Despite his early allegiances to Trump and volunteer work, Visconti was also left off the delegate roster for the 2016 Republican National Convention in Cleveland.

Both the elder Visconti, 61, a former West Hartford town councilor and thespian, and the younger Visconti, 30, now have Emmys. The elder Visconti’s Emmy came in 1997 for a documentary he produced on people with disabilities.

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